A teenage hit-and-run victim was thrown into the air "like a rag doll" when she was mown down by a speeding disqualified driver after being asked to leave a noisy party.

Name suppression has been lifted for the driver accused of killing 17-year-old Jesse Howe and injuring 10 others by dangerously driving a vehicle.

A teenage girl who drove a van that crashed and killed two men while she was more than three times the legal drink drive limit has avoided a jail term.

A 23-year-old says he had no intention of injuring a police officer who tried to stop him driving off in a patrol car after being processed for drink-driving at a checkpoint. A court has heard had earlier admitted the charge

A disqualified driver who killed two passengers as he fled from police in Auckland last year was today jailed for at least three years.

Police have been cleared of wrongdoing in the pursuit of a serial drunk driver who sped through a red light and killed two people in Christchurch.

A driver is being labelled by police as foolhardy for trying to take a bus full of tourists up reputedly the world's steepest street.

The family of a pregnant woman who was killed when her epileptic partner drove at speed into a Hamilton car yard are angry he has escaped a jail sentence. Riki Kelly admitted he had not taken his medication three days before the crash.

A hospital surgeon is fighting a drink-driving charge after driving home from a bar.

The threat of jail terms for drivers who flee police will not stop young offenders, a criminal psychologist says.